A hypnagogic hallucination happens as you’re drifting off to sleep. They’re not even always hallucinations, sometimes they’re just intense scary thoughts. As I’m drifting off I hear screaming or think that after this life I’m going to hell. ■■■■ is terrifying.
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I get these type of hallucinations all the time
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They suckkkkkk. They’re the only type of hallucination I get. I just wish they weren’t so morbid and scary.
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Mine are horrifying!
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I just hear entities/voices talking and stuff before i sleep. It just randomly gets loud
I used to fly around in space a lot when my eyes were closed. I could check out planets and stuff lol doesnt happen much anymore.
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Moving to Dx’d Sz/SzA.
What are yours like?
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Usually horrifying realistic visual hallucinations like intruders entering the house or strange creatures climbing the walls.
They are so realistic and terrifying!
I have hypnapompic hallucinations
I have them almost every night.
For 10 years or so
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That’s terrible. Must make it awful to go to sleep
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Yes but thankfully I no longer get them every night
ive had these since i was 7 years old. most my family gets them too. almost every night i hear voices when trying to sleep and theyre usually…idk if id call them non-sense, but theyre like listening to a high person talk and trying to figure out the meaning. from what ive read tho they arent caused by schizophrenia
I have periods where I have these very intensely. I’ve no idea what factors into why I have lots some weeks and then none for multiple months but it is very trippy and can be scary. I took some hallucinogenics when I was very young and it is a similar experience but for me it has less colour. Most of my hypnagogic hallucination are in grey scale for some reason.
And those times when you kick your legs cos you imagined yourself running lol
to be fair, after i researched this a while ago, i found it was normal and anybody can get them, its not just people with psychosis.
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Yeah but it’s probably also true that there much more common in people with schizophrenia.
its something that anyone can get and its normal, schizophrenia on the other hand is a specific condition, i think we should differentiate between the 2.
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I wasn’t saying we shouldn’t. I was just saying that while they can happen to anyone, there more likely to happen if you have schizophrenia.
yes, hallucinations are in general more likely with Schiz, Hypnagogic can happen to anyone schizo or not. this what i got when i researched it and chatted about it in a similar thread a while ago.
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Had one last night, or the night before. Hate them, they’re usually scary as well
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